Petticoats and Prejudice - Women's Press Classics

Women and Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada

Constance Backhouse (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

494 Seiten

2015
Women's Press of Canada (Verlag)
978-0-88961-522-9 (ISBN)

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Drawing on historical records of women’s varying experiences as litigants, accused criminals, or witnesses, this book offers critical insight into women’s legal status in nineteenth-century Canada. In an effort to recover the social and political conditions under which women lobbied, rebelled, and in some cases influenced change, Petticoats and Prejudice weaves together forgotten stories of achievement and defeat in the Canadian legal system.Expanding the concept of “heroism” beyond its traditional limitations, this text gives life to some of Canada’s lost heroines. Euphemia Rabbitt, who resisted an attempted rape, and Clara Brett Martin, who valiantly secured entry into the all-male legal profession, were admired by their contemporaries for their successful pursuits of justice. But Ellen Rogers, a prostitute who believed all women should be legally protected against sexual assault, and Nellie Armstrong, a battered wife and mother who sought child custody, were ostracized for their ideas and demands. Well aware of the limitations placed upon women advocating for reform in a patriarchal legal system, Constance Backhouse recreates vivid and textured snapshots of these and other women’s courageous struggles against gender discrimination and oppression.Employing social history to illuminate the reproductive, sexual, racial, and occupational inequalities that continue to shape women’s encounters with the law, Petticoats and Prejudice is an essential entry point into the gendered treatment of feminized bodies in Canadian legal institutions.

Constance Backhouse is University Research Chair and Distinguished University Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa and co-founder of the Feminist History Society.

Foreword, Jim Phillips and R. Roy McMurtry
Foreword to the First Edition, R. Roy McMurtry and Peter N. Oliver
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: THE REGULATION OF MARRIAGE, COURTSHIP, AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE
Chapter 1: The Ceremony of Marriage
Chapter 2: Seduction
Chapter 3: Rape
PART II: FERTILITY
Chapter 4: Infanticide
Chapter 5: Abortion
PART III: THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY FAMILY
Chapter 6: Divorce and Separation
Chapter 7: Child Custody
PART IV: WOMEN'S WORK IN THE PAID LABOUR FORCE
Chapter 8: Prostitution
Chapter 9: Protective Labour Legislation
Chapter 10: Lawyering: Clara Brett Martin, Canada's First Woman Lawyer
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
Copyright Acknowledgements
Selected Publications by The Osgoode Society
Selected Publications by Women's Press
About the Author

Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-88961-522-5 / 0889615225
ISBN-13	978-0-88961-522-9 / 9780889615229
Zustand	Neuware